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Still Running Up the Down Escalator: How Narratives Shape our Understanding of Racial Wealth Inequality

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09/09/2021
Author: 
Natasha Hicks, Fenaba R. Addo, Anne E. Price and William A. Darity, Jr
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This paper provides up-to-date estimates of the magnitude of racial wealth inequities, explicitly focusing on Black and White populations, and highlights how personal responsibility, bootstraps, and anti-black narratives have distorted society’s understanding of racial wealth disparities and solutions to advancing racial equity. 

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